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100	1	0	_aLoving, Jerome. _d1941- _9102492
245	1	0	_aWalt Whitman : _bThe song of himself / _cJerome Loving.
250			_a1st pbk. ed.
260	0		_bUniversity of California Press, _aBerkeley, Calif.: _c2000, c1999.
300			_aXIV, 568 p., [48 p. plates.] : _bill., ports ; _c24 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 1999.
520			_aA biography of Walt whitman, the 19th century writer hailed as the father of American poetry. It traces his life as a printer and journalist, before his self-published collection, Leaves of Grass, brought him fame. He was a great promoter, going so far as to write his own book reviews for newspapers. As a poet, he rejected regular meter and rhyme in favor of free verse and blazed the trail as a writer of erotica.
505	0		_aCaresser of life -- Thousand singers, a thousand songs - Some literary person -- Heart-songs in Brooklyn -- Crescent City sojourn -- Simmering, simmering, simmering -- Beginning of a great career -- New American Bible -- Calamus and the National Calamity -- True love -- Good old cause -- Dalliances of eagles -- Good-bye my fancy.
650		0	_aPoets, American _y19th century _vBiography _9102495
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